Prototype Model Cards

Concept-stage transparency documentation for APHI tools: intended use, excluded use, data needs, validation requirements, and governance.

Overview

These are not validated product claims. They define what each prototype is meant to support and what evidence would be required before operational deployment.

Outbreak Signal Review Concept

Purpose: Help epidemiologists review unusual respiratory, gastrointestinal, or syndromic patterns across trusted surveillance feeds.

Intended Use
  • Flag unusual patterns for human review.
  • Attach source evidence and confidence notes to each signal.
  • Support situational awareness briefings, not autonomous outbreak declarations.
Limitations
  • Performance depends on local reporting completeness and data latency.
  • Seasonal demand shifts, coding changes, and care-seeking behavior can create false signals.
  • Public health action requires epidemiologist review and local context.
Validation Required

Historical back-testing, prospective shadow review, subgroup performance checks, alert burden review, and documented comparison against existing surveillance workflows.

Status: Concept-stage prototype. No APHI deployment metrics are claimed.

Community Risk Prioritization Concept

Purpose: Help public health teams prioritize outreach, prevention resources, and follow-up by geography or program need.

Intended Use
  • Identify neighborhoods or programs that need closer review.
  • Compare service gaps with public health burden and access barriers.
  • Support resource planning discussions with transparent assumptions.
Excluded Use

Not for individual diagnosis, eligibility denial, enforcement, or punitive targeting. Outputs must remain population-level and programmatic.

Validation Required

Data provenance review, bias assessment, stakeholder review, prospective monitoring, and documentation of how recommendations change resource allocation.

Status: Concept-stage prototype. No APHI deployment metrics are claimed.

Evidence Briefing Assistant Concept

Purpose: Help teams summarize public sources, guidance, and surveillance updates into reviewable public health briefs.

Intended Use
  • Summarize source-linked public health evidence for human review.
  • Track which source supports each claim.
  • Flag missing citations, stale guidance, and unresolved uncertainty.
Limitations
  • Cannot replace source verification.
  • May miss jurisdiction-specific guidance or recent policy changes.
  • Requires human review before publication or operational use.
Validation Required

Citation accuracy audits, hallucination testing, source freshness checks, and reviewer acceptance tracking.

Status: Concept-stage prototype. No APHI deployment metrics are claimed.

Disclaimer

APHI does not claim validated proprietary model performance on this page. Any future metric will require a public source or a documented partner evaluation with scope, denominator, confidence interval where appropriate, and review date.